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How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text
I recently posted a Substack note about Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be interesting to go into a bit more detail when explaini...
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch
An End-to-End Project With Dataset Construction, Model Training, Local Deployment, and RLVR
Substack recently launched its AI detector feature in the UI, which is super interesting.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
It has been almost two years since OpenAI released o1, a model that popularized the idea of LLM-based reasoning models. DeepSeek-R1 followed about four months later, together with details of a reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards...
Using Local Coding Agents
Many people reached out to me in the past asking about my local agent stack as well as how I set up my local agent stack.
So, I thought it might be useful to put together a little tutorial on how to set up a local (coding) agent using open...
LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)
A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year
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